Is recovery like being teenager again

Yes, I can relate to this as well I do remember thinking to myself recently "I feel younger in my mind", I am 34.

 

and being horny as f*ck all the time? Yes.
Also, as with any addiction, we delay our emotional development by escaping into our addiction. If you stop jerking off every time life gets hard, you’re going to have to grow up and face little de like an adult.

It’ll be a bumpy road, but you’ll feel better in the long run.

 

Yes. I am 32 and this is why I usually return to pmo . if i actually get to day 7 I start to notice aggression and mood swings .were pmo keeps me genuinely apathetic

I know we're the aggression leads to and it's usually nowhere good

 

Yes, this is especially true with PMO and sex addiction if we think about the fact that puberty has to do with sexual development. I don't think there's enough attention paid to the details of the developmental context of recovery in general, and with PMO specifically you have the qualification of a flatline period but not much else. It's probably hard to generalize when you get specific but regressing to reprocess and sort of catch up on developmental delays is not a small thing even if it'll be different for everyone to some extent and is worth looking at in detail.

 

I think there's a lot of thought going into this but probably more than is necessary. Porn simply spikes your sex drive.

Humans go along a course of sexual development there whole life hormone fluctuations experience etc. You are talking about sexual development recovery.

Why do you think sexual development has been damaged in a way that in the very title is sexually undeveloped .

Porn doesn't just lock you in a time and place were you stop developing sexually it's just along for the journey

 

This is more so in a larger general addiction recovery context. Obviously people who are younger simply haven't had the time to develop yet, though at the same time a part of porn is it's relating to an artificial narrative rather than actual human sexual relationship. Of course then it's a question of whether someone has that along with porn addiction. The fact that some people with a partner find that to be an issue, which is also the case with people with other addictions where they may not consider their relationship to sex an issue whether it is in fact one or not would indicate it's a part of the larger process and addicts working on other issues may have this issue but just not seeing it. Just because some people have quit drinking or something it doesn't mean there's nothing else, and a younger person who is working on PMO may be ahead of them as far as this one goes just because they recognize it is an issue.

 

while recovery, i looked at my past before porn, which was pretty much my pre-teen times. A lot of my current hobbies and activities are from my pre-porn years. my recovery has somewhat been like being a kid again.